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The Superbowl, Cockney Slang & The Bee Gees (Mon, 16th Mar, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Cray and when you're hosting a quiz show,
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  Speaker 1: details matter down to the fine minute. Question number one?
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  Speaker 1: Which confectionery company manufactures the cream egg Cadbury? Question two?
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  Speaker 1: In the sonic the Hedgehog Games, who was doctor Ivo
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  Speaker 1: Robotnic Betananez the Eggman? Now that's not a coincidence having
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  Speaker 1: to questions in a row. You might even call it
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  Speaker 1: a little easter egg. Question three, in which country did
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  Speaker 1: the Begs have their first number one hit? Was it Australia,
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  Speaker 1: the UK or the United States? It was Australia in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six with the song Spicks and Specs, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll put something up on Patreon to commemorate that excellent song.
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  Speaker 1: Question number four classified as extras. How many types of
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  Speaker 1: buys are there in cricket? There are two types of buys,
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  Speaker 1: buys and leg byes. Question five, which Nobel Prize was
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  Speaker 1: awarded to Mother Teresa in nineteen seventy nine the Nobel
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  Speaker 1: Peace Prize. Question six What word is both a Swiss
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  Speaker 1: watchmaking company and the first global radio navigation system Omega?
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  Speaker 1: The first watch came in eighteen ninety four and the
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  Speaker 1: nav system was in the early nineteen seventies. Question seven.
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  Speaker 1: What were Hillary and Tensing the first to do? Sir
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  Speaker 1: Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay were the first people to
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  Speaker 1: climb Mount Everest. Question eight? Which alcoholic drink is made
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  Speaker 1: from fermented apple juice cider? It's not always alcoholic, but
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  Speaker 1: it mostly is. Question nine? What type of animal is
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Fisher? In the Beatrix Potter book, Jeremy Fisher is
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  Speaker 1: a frog? Question ten? In churches of Christian denominations, what
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  Speaker 1: do we call the stall where a priest sits to
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  Speaker 1: hear the confessions of parishners a confessional? Question eleven. Which
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  Speaker 1: was the first AFL team to be based in a
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  Speaker 1: state other than Victoria, The Sydney Swans. They were the
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  Speaker 1: rebranded South Melbourne football club which moved to New South
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  Speaker 1: Wales in nineteen eighty two. Question twelve. A flashy or
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  Speaker 1: showy display can be colloquially described as razzle, What razzle dazzle?
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  Speaker 1: Question thirteen? By what name were the countries Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia,
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  Speaker 1: Serbia and Montenegro formerly known Yugoslavia. Question fourteen At the
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen Super Bowl? Who performed part of
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  Speaker 1: the halftime show on top of a huge golden robotic lion,
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  Speaker 1: Katie Perry? Question fifteen? Which famous Roman statesman and orator
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  Speaker 1: died in forty three BC? I don't expect you to know,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll give you some options. Was it Gracis, was
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  Speaker 1: it Chicero? Or was it Hortalus? That's Gracis, Chicero or Hortalus.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is Marcus Tullius Chicero. Question sixteen in Kockney
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  Speaker 1: rhyming s lang, how much is a monkey? A monkey
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  Speaker 1: is five hundred pounds. Question seventeen. To intimidate with overbearing
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  Speaker 1: looks or stern words is to brow what brow beat?
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen? Who played Joan Wilder in the nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: four action romance movie Romancing the Stone Kathleen Turner. Question
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  Speaker 1: nineteen today is a movie follow up question complete the
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  Speaker 1: theme song title from the nineteen eighty five adventure movie
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  Speaker 1: The Duel of the Nile, which was the sequel to
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  Speaker 1: Romancing the Stone. When the going gets tough, When the
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  Speaker 1: going gets tough, the Tough get going by Billy Osha.
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  Speaker 1: And when the questions are done, the who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Is next? And we're back with question twenty Today it's
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  Speaker 1: a who am I? Born in October nineteen forty five
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  Speaker 1: in New Rochelle, New York, to parents of Italian and
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  Speaker 1: Scottish origin. As a boy, I delivered newspapers and as
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  Speaker 1: a teenager was influenced by Buddy Holly and Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: and the folk quartet The Weavers. Being absent from school
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  Speaker 1: due to asthma allowed me to focus on music, and
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  Speaker 1: after dropping out of university, I performed at various venues
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  Speaker 1: in New York, Washington, and LA before Night school finally
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  Speaker 1: gave me a bachelor's degree in business admin. In nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight. I became friends with legendary focusinger Pete Seeger, and,
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  Speaker 1: after being rejected by record labels seventy two times, released
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  Speaker 1: my debut album, Tapestry in nineteen seventy. It spawned the
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  Speaker 1: easy listening hit Castles in the Air. My second album
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen ten, Eventy one, would go on to sell
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  Speaker 1: more than six million copies and featured an eight and
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  Speaker 1: a half minute cultural touchstone inspired by American youth culture
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  Speaker 1: and the deaths of Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens and the
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  Speaker 1: Big Bopper in a nineteen fifty nine plane crash. It
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  Speaker 1: also contained the single Vincent, a tribute to Vincent van
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  Speaker 1: Go But it is the immortal lyrics the Day the
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  Speaker 1: Music Died from the album's title track, American Pie, which
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  Speaker 1: for fifty five years have been loved and sung by
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  Speaker 1: music lovers around the world. I am I saw this
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  Speaker 1: bloke play live in two thousand and eight. He's eighty
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  Speaker 1: years of age. Now back then, we'll do the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: He was incredible. He is, of course. Don McLain and
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